Deebo & Joe - Part 2: Baker Mayfield to Steelers? + Joel Bitonio Retires

**James Harrison** (0:00)
So, they say, Baker, could Baker Mayfield be the Steelers' next quarterback after Aaron Rodgers? NFL insider, Baker Mayfield would be perfect for the Steelers as he's poised to hit free agency after the 2026 I don't know if he could hit free agency after 2026, because I think he gave them boys until when, was it?
I think he gave them to training clan to get a chance to, I guess, get a deal done or however it may be. I don't know why we already talking about a quarterback for the Steelers next year, dude. Like we talking about, I mean, I would talk about it. I mean, I guess if it was Joe Burrow, if it was Joe Burrow, I would do that. But Mike Flora asked-

**Joe Haden** (0:48)
If it's Baker Mayfield, you know, it's interesting.

**James Harrison** (0:50)
I ain't tripping.
If it's Mike Flora, y'all do, he seems to think that, what did he say? He said, Baker Mayfield would be perfect in Pittsburgh. He would be perfect. He said, I know they would like to get off of the train of old veteran quarterbacks. Baker ain't that old either though. But I mean, he's a spring chicken compared to Aaron Rodgers. I would make a beeline, he said, for Baker Mayfield, if I'm Mike McCarthy and in Steelers, I get through the season and my options are Will Howard and Drew Aller or Mason Rudolph. I'm doing whatever it takes to get to Baker Mayfield and to get Baker Mayfield in Pittsburgh. So that's what he thinks.
I don't know about that.

**Joe Haden** (1:42)
What are you thinking?

**James Harrison** (1:43)
Me? I don't know. I would say, yes, I would say we really have to depend on what true development you saw in your players first. So we don't know. We still have no clue of what Drew or Will can do. Drew just got there. Will was hurt. Like we had no idea.
So if that became to where like it was like, okay, it was a toss up throw up in the air. If he was going to be able to or if either one of them was going to be a automatic, I see him as a starter for us next year, then yeah. Now that's going to determine what it is that Baker is looking to get from it. And assuming was his last deal, three year, 100 million. You know, he's either looking for that right now. He's 29 He's looking for that right now. And if not more, and they're obviously I guess they're balking on it a little bit. And he's he didn't gave him a deadline that they got to get the deal done by training camp. So if they don't get that deal done by training camp, then he's like, ain't no deal to get done and I'm out of here.
If we are in that, I don't know if if he comes one, you know, 35, 40 million.
Do we even get, do we even think about that versus what may be out there? And like I said, it's a whole bunch of other stuff that gotta happen before we even get to that point, like where we go be at in the draft, you know, like what we go be like, we already go be last, you know what I'm saying? Cause we about to win the Superbowl. So, you know, is it something that we can get done, package, whatever, toss? I don't know to get it. Ooh, I hate to say this.

**Joe Haden** (3:33)
Go ahead.

**James Harrison** (3:33)
I don't know why that just went through my head.

**Joe Haden** (3:36)
Say it. What you thinking, Deebo?

**James Harrison** (3:40)
If the deal can't be done, with Lil Peasy, I might have to switch him off for a couple of first round picks.

**Joe Haden** (3:49)
Whoa, hell.

**James Harrison** (3:50)
Damn, I don't even know why I thought of that.

**Joe Haden** (3:52)
No, no, no, don't do that.

**James Harrison** (3:55)
Listen, man, I don't even know why I did it.

**Joe Haden** (3:56)
He's, no, no, no, he's homegrown, we can't do that.

**James Harrison** (3:59)
I know he's homegrown, we can't do nothing.

**Joe Haden** (4:01)
We gon get it, we gon get it.

**James Harrison** (4:02)
I'm just telling you what went through my head, that was all.

**Joe Haden** (4:06)
Okay, I'm glad you told me, I'm glad you told me.

**James Harrison** (4:09)
I was trying to get a quarterback in the first day, on the first pick, and I know-

**Joe Haden** (4:14)
That went in one ear and out the other.

**James Harrison** (4:18)